Tour TaLaya Brown's Family Home in a Historic Black Neighborhood

TaLaya Brown doesn’t consider herself an interior designer — she’s a nail artist, self-taught, who owns a nail salon in Charlotte, North Carolina. But the artistic talent that she applies to clients’ hands spills over in a big way to the midcentury modern home that she has transformed into the open and airy “forever home” that she and her husband, Kerrick Faulkner, enjoy.

“I am a design enthusiast, but I never actually wanted to be an interior designer," TaLaya says. “It kind of grew on me as I got older.”